“Music needs room to breathe.”

“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that breathless silence is
the music of the dark
and it’s part of the rhythm
to vanish like a spark.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

“We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

“Music was as natural as breathing in our house.”

Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress

“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

“You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

“Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.”

Kelley Armstrong book Frostbitten

“I need you to breathe for me.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things